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Please, General Custer, I Don't Want to Go
These entertaining stories from Old West history include cowboys, Indians, lawmen, lawbreakers, entertainers, prostitutes, priests, and politicians. They all helped shape the myth and legend of the American West. This book reveals the stories of characters like Mary Fields, Cleophas Dowd, and Judge Roy Bean, and offers glimpses of gunfights, holdups, mining claim battles, and more.
Shattered Lives, Shattered Dreams: The Disrupted Lives of Families in America's Internment Camps
Thousands of German-Americans were unjustly interned in prison camps throughout the United States during WWII, which must never be forgotten or allowed to happen again. Shattered Lives, Shattered Dreams gives a voice to those silenced for so long as former internees and their families describe their hellish lives in the camps and how they are still impacted more than 65 years later.
The Aleut Internments of World War II
This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population. From the closing years of the 17th century when the Russians first set foot on the shores of the far-flung Aleutian Islands, through the war years, to the reparations hearings of the late 1970s, it sheds light on the little-known story of the Aleut people and the events in war and peace that shaped their lives. The actions that led to the internments of the Aleuts are documented through official records, letters, and personal accounts that reveal the experiences of a native people who suffered and died in the camps while posing no threat to national security in time of war. In some cases native Alaskans were held in camps that were almost as bad as the Japanese POW camps.
The Aleut Internments of World War II
This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population. From the closing years of the 17th century when the Russians first set foot on the shores of the far-flung Aleutian Islands, through the war years, to the reparations hearings of the late 1970s, it sheds light on the little-known story of the Aleut people and the events in war and peace that shaped their lives. The actions that led to the internments of the Aleuts are documented through official records, letters, and personal accounts that reveal the experiences of a native people who suffered and died in the camps while posing no threat to national security in time of war. In some cases native Alaskans were held in camps that were almost as bad as the Japanese POW camps.
Axis Prisoners of War in Kentucky
During World War II, Kentuckians rushed from farms to factories and battlefields, leaving agriculture throughout the state--particularly the lucrative tobacco industry--without sufficient labor. An influx of Axis prisoners of war made up the shortfall. Nearly 10,000 German and Italian POWs were housed in camps at Campbell, Breckinridge, Knox and other locations across the state. Under the Geneva Convention, they worked for their captors and helped save Kentucky's crops, while enjoying relative comfort as prisoners--playing sports, performing musicals and taking college classes. Yet, friction between Nazi and anti-Nazi inmates threatened the success of the program. This book chronicles the POW program in Kentucky and the vital contributions the Bluegrass State made to Allied victory.
Untold True Story of America's Enemy Aliens in World War II
During World War II, the United States government ordered the arrest and internment of thousands of German aliens including women and children and the kidnapping and detainment of 4,000 German, Italian, and Japanese citizens from Latin America. Based on U.S. State Department memos, FBI documents, and eyewitness accounts, Shattered Lives, Shattered Dreams is the untold true story of a secret prisoner exchange program between the United States and the Axis powers, and a secret cover up that reached into the highest levels of the United States government.--from back cover
A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered
Scholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demographic composition of the United States. In A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered, leading scholars of immigration explore how the political and ideological struggles of the "age of restriction"--from 1924 to 1965--paved the way for the changes to come. The essays examine how geopolitics, civil rights, perceptions of America's role as a humanitarian sanctuary, and economic priorities led government officials to facilitate the entrance of specific immigrant groups, thereby establishing the legal precedents for future policies. Eye-opening articles discuss Japanes...
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Seven Cities of Gold
A true story of four castaways who endured eight years of captivity, slavery, hunger, starvation and murder to reach the safety of colonial Mexico City. In 1528, 300 conquistadors embarked on an ambitious mission to colonize La Florida for the Spanish crown. Within a matter of months they disappeared. Thousands of miles and eight years later, a band of Spanish slave traders encountered the last survivors of this lost expedition. Their march across Florida, their voyage on spindly rafts across the Gulf of Mexico, their captivity and subsequent slavery by various Indian tribes in Texas, and their trek across the unexplored southwest to the Pacific Ocean is a legendary tale of courage int he face of overwhelming odds.--from back cover
